Paris

to
Berlin
(1885 - 1887)
• After completing his studies in
Madrid, Rizal went to Paris and
Germany to specialize
ophthalmology.
• He particularly chose this
branch of medicine because he
wanted to cure his mother’s
ailment.
• He served as an assistant to the
famous oculist of Europe
 Top German
Scientist

Dr. Dr. Dr. Rudolf

Feodor Adolph B. Hans Vircho
Jagor Meyer Meyer w
 In Gay Paris ( 1885-
Maximo Viola
86) -A Medical student from San Miguel, Bulacan
Senor Eusebio Corominas-The editor in chief of the newspaper La
Publicidad
Don Miguel Morayta-The owner of La Publicidad
November 1885-Rizal was living in Paris, where he sojourned for about four
months
Dr. Louis de Weckert-Leading French opthalmologists where Rizal
( 1852-1996) worked as an assistant
 Rizal relaxed by visiting his friends,
such as the family of the Pardo de
Taveras

Felix Resureccion Mystery woman in

Juan Juan Luna’s Famous
Hidalgo Luna Painting
Juan Luna
The great master of brush; Rizal helped him by posing as model
in several paintings.

“The Death of
& “The Blood Compact”
Rizal postedCleopatra”
as in Egyptian Priest Rizal posted as Sikatuna
 Rizal as
Musician
• Rizal has no natural aptitude for music, and this he admitted.
• In a letter dated November 27, 1878, he told Enrique Lete that
“learned the solfeggio, piano and voice culture in one month and a
half”
• He was flutist in various impromptu reunions of Filipinos in Paris
• Some of his compositions are:
⚬ “Aling mang Lahi” & “La Deportacion”
 In Historic Heidelberg
February 1, 1886 February 3, 1886 Dr. Otto Becker
-A distinguised German
-He arrived in
-Rizal left gay Paris opthalmologist.
Heidelberg. Rizal -He worked at the University
for Germany
was a good chess of Eye
player. Hospital
 “To the
Flowers of
Heidelberg”
• In the spring of 1886, Rizal was fascinated
by the blooming flowers along the cool
banks of the Neckar River.
• His favorite flower - the light blue “forget-
me-not”
• On April 22, 1886 - a poem entitled “A Las
Flores de Heidelberg”
With Pastor Ulmer at
Wilhelmsfeld
• Rizal spent three-months in Wilhelmsfeld, a mountain village near Heidelberg.
• Dr. Karl Ulmer - a kind Protestant pastor

First Letter to Blumentritt

• July 31, 1886
⚬ Rizal wrote his first letter in German to Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt.
⚬ Rizal sent the book entitled Aritmetica
⚬ Blumentritt, the Austrian became the best friend of Rizal.
 In Leipzig and
Dresden
• August 9, 1886
⚬ he boarded a train, visited various cities of Germany.

• August 14, 1886

⚬ he arrived in Leipzig. He attended some lectures at the University of
Leipzig on History and Psychology

• Professor Friedrich Ratzel

⚬ a famouse German historian

• Dr. Hans Meyer

⚬ German Anthroppologist
 In Leipzig
• He stayed two months and a half in this German City.
• Rizal translated Schiller’s William Tell from German to Filipino, and
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
• He worked as a prof-reader.

October 29
• He left Leipzig for Dresden.
• He met Dr. Adolph B. Meyer, Director of the Anthropological and
Ethnological Museum.
Rizal Welcomed in
Berlin’s Scientific
Circles
• Rizal was enchanted by Berlin because of its scientific atmosphere and the
absence of race prejudice

• Dr. Feodor Jagor - German scientist traveller and author of Travels in the
Philippines.
• Dr. Rudolpf Virchow - famous German anthropologist.
• Dr. W. Joest - German Geographer
• Dr. Karl Ernest Schweigger - famous opthalmologist.

• Rizal became a member of the Anthropological Sociert, the Ethnological Society and the
Geographical Society in Berlin
 His Five Reasons

Rizal’ 1. To gain further knowledge of

s
ophthalmology.
2. To further his studies of science and
languages.

Life 3. To observe the economic had political

conditions of the German nations.

in
4. To associate with famous German
scientists and scholars.
5. To publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere.

Berlin
 Rizal on German Women
Rizal wrote a letter addressed to her sister, Trinidad, expressing his high regard and
admiration for German womanhood

• The German • The Spanish • The Filipino

Women Women Women
1.Serious 1. Gossip 1. More interested in how the
2.Deligent 2. Frivolous dressed than how much
3. Quarrelsome they know
3.Educated
2. Fine manners
4.Friendly 3. Devotion
4. Hospitality
German Customs
• He was delighted of the Germans’ Yuletide custom.
- People take pine trees from the buches and adorned it
with lanterns, paper, lights, dolls, candies and fruits.
• Self-introduction to strangers in a social gatherings
- according to German code of etiqutte, it is bad
manners for a guest to remain aloof, and wait for his host to
make the proper introduction.
-
Rizal’s Darkest
Winter
• The wintter of 1886
was his darkesr
winter.
• He lived in poverty.
• Rizal starved in
Berlin and shrived
with wintry cold.
 Thank
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Antiquera, Mary Ann Joy A.
Cabuyao, Hasmin E.
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